Historic - A New World (CLOSED)

But first you have to sign up. No major character details needed, name and approximate features as well as occupation/skills. (lFor example: Sven, a smallish man with blonde hair and thin beard, skilled farmer -or- Yon, a big man with jet black hair/beard, blacksmith).

Ideas for skills include (but are not limited to)BrewerFarmerHunterBlacksmithRoof thatcherCarpenterShip builderFisherman

I ran this one on another site a few years ago and it was a ton of fun. Here's a taste of it, once you're approved go ahead and start playing.

You are on one of three Viking ships, each with roughly fifty settlers, on your way to a new land. You are the second wave of settlers being sent, the first group of 100 men and women are to have already established a small village a year ago.

Four nights into the voyage a heavy storm hit that took down one of the ships, only a few men survived; your ship taking on three men and a woman from the wreckage, the other ship taking on ten.

After a full week at sea land can be seen. One of your brethren blows a loud horn to signal your approach, the village returns the call with a horn of their own. Your ships reach land shortly before nightfall, a great fire and feast awaiting you on land. You are each welcomed in turn by the surprisingly few men and women of the village.

_________________When outlaws are outlawed, only outlaws will be outlaws!

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I assume by 'Viking' you mean 'generic seafaring badasses with horns on their hats' and no actual knowledge of RL Viking culture is required?

Either way I'm all over this come Monday, I just have to survive the weekend first. Since I'm sort of getting a Dwarf Fortress vibe from all this I'll probably be a farmer--never strike the earth without one unless you enjoy watching everyone starve the first winter.

(Seriously though I have no idea what direction you're going with, but if you ever get desperate for new members here maybe you should do a straight up Dwarf Fortress RP...or allow someone else to run one if you've never played it and have no idea what I'm talking about. I am 100% certain I could drop a link on the forum then and get some bites.

It's this awesome perpetually in development (and heavily moddable) citybuilder/roguelike/madlibs generator/sandbox game. You buy skills and a wagonload of supplies for a handful of dwarves and then build a self-sufficient fortress get raped by forgotten beasts in the bowels of the earth in a vast randomly generated world with it's own unique history and wars and monsters.

Only the hardcore need apply, because mandatory to play are a good tileset to get past the ASCII graphics. And a healthy dose of masochism to get past the vertical learning curve created by the horrific UI and whatever new feature is currently unbalanced or bugged while the kinks get worked out. Once you past all that though the game has an insane amount of detail and freedom--as in, literally, the guy who makes it is very likely insane (or at least autistic). Basically it's a more of a toybox full of psychotic dwarves and lava then an actual game and is unforgivably broken and terrible in a variety of ways, but even while fully aware of this you find yourself helplessly addicted and donating money to the dev in the hopes he'll add more detailed beekeeping or the ability to craft solid gold dildos adorned with hanging rings of schist and menacing with spikes of limestone.

There's a wiki and all but if you're remotely curious the Gemclod succession LP is probably the best place to get an idea of what it's all about, short of wasting hours of your life you'll never get back actually playing it: gemclod.goondorfs.net/

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Name: VithiOccupation: CarpenterAppearance: Middle-aged. Eyes of pale blue. Thick, blond hair of medium length and a goatee; he has grown white at the temples and a few locks above his brow and most of the hair on his chin. Crow’s feet, forehead wrinkles and frown/smile lines etch a look of perpetual melancholy on his face, showing clearly that he’s lived. Vithi is wiry and a bit hairier than someone as fair as he might usually be. His hands are callused and a little scarred from years of hard work.

Whoa. That's Chris Hemsworth? He clearly buffed up since taking that picture.

I assume it was taken closer to when he was Kirk's dad. And no, I don't know why he gave up captaining a spaceship and being the god of thunder to become a farmer in some crappy little run-down village either.

Name : SheolOccupation : ArtisanAppearance : Sheol is approximately twenty-seven, at 5'11" with flaxen hair and blue eyes. He was born intersex (in this case possessing physical characteristics of both sexes). His body is slim and androgynous, possessing breasts and ambiguous genitalia. A scar runs from just below his right eye to his chin, curving slightly against his jawline.

Name : SheolOccupation : ArtisanAppearance : Sheol is approximately twenty-seven, at 5'11" with flaxen hair and blue eyes. He was born intersex (in this case possessing physical characteristics of both sexes). His body is slim and androgynous, possessing breasts and ambiguous genitalia. A scar runs from just below his right eye to his chin, curving slightly against his jawline.

Name : SheolOccupation : ArtisanAppearance : Sheol is approximately twenty-seven, at 5'11" with flaxen hair and blue eyes. He was born intersex (in this case possessing physical characteristics of both sexes). His body is slim and androgynous, possessing breasts and ambiguous genitalia. A scar runs from just below his right eye to his chin, curving slightly against his jawline.

Character sheetCharacter: (1/3)Info: UlmarkMore info: A simple former slave from a south-western land. He likes hitting things with sticks, so don't make him mad... especially if he has a stick

Subject: Re: Historic - A New World (CLOSED) Sun Nov 06, 2011 7:31 pm

Sheol wrote:

Name : SheolOccupation : ArtisanAppearance : Sheol is approximately twenty-seven, at 5'11" with flaxen hair and blue eyes. He was born intersex (in this case possessing physical characteristics of both sexes). His body is slim and androgynous, possessing breasts and ambiguous genitalia. A scar runs from just below his right eye to his chin, curving slightly against his jawline.

Name : SheolOccupation : ArtisanAppearance : Sheol is approximately twenty-seven, at 5'11" with flaxen hair and blue eyes. He was born intersex (in this case possessing physical characteristics of both sexes). His body is slim and androgynous, possessing breasts and ambiguous genitalia. A scar runs from just below his right eye to his chin, curving slightly against his jawline.

Name : SheolOccupation : ArtisanAppearance : Sheol is approximately twenty-seven, at 5'11" with flaxen hair and blue eyes. He was born intersex (in this case possessing physical characteristics of both sexes). His body is slim and androgynous, possessing breasts and ambiguous genitalia. A scar runs from just below his right eye to his chin, curving slightly against his jawline.

Oh, yeah... that just happened

What just happened?

We will tell you when you are older.

Sheol wrote:

Name : SheolOccupation : ArtisanAppearance : Sheol is approximately twenty-seven, at 5'11" with flaxen hair and blue eyes. He was born intersex (in this case possessing physical characteristics of both sexes). His body is slim and androgynous, possessing breasts and ambiguous genitalia. A scar runs from just below his right eye to his chin, curving slightly against his jawline.

Great don't turn your back on Sheol or Your front either. Someone had to make the joke

Name : SheolOccupation : ArtisanAppearance : Sheol is approximately twenty-seven, at 5'11" with flaxen hair and blue eyes. He was born intersex (in this case possessing physical characteristics of both sexes). His body is slim and androgynous, possessing breasts and ambiguous genitalia. A scar runs from just below his right eye to his chin, curving slightly against his jawline.

Great don't turn your back on Sheol or Your front either. Someone had to make the joke